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This is gonna be a little sappy, but bear with me.

My partner has two cats: one anxiety-ridden boy and one bratty girl. I would literally take a bullet for either of them, but that's not the point.

Anyway. The girl cat is very smart and knows exactly how to get away with Evil (tm) (opening doors, opening those twist top dog food containers, peeing on stuff when she's mad, etc al). But here's the thing. Every time I cry, for any reason (sad song, frustration, conflict with family member), this little girl comes and sits on my knee or my foot. I've even had her climb under a blanket I'm sobbing under to sit with me.

Don't get me wrong, the boy cat is extremely sweet and would never say no to attention. But this beautiful brat cat comes and finds me every time I cry. Even if my partner and I have a disagreement. She sees me crying, and she comes and sits with me. I get kinda emotional thinking about it tbh because for a long time, I felt like these were my partner's cats, and I was just the Other Human that hung around.

I've been with my partner for 3 years now, and we live together. Our girl cat still sits on me when I'm upset, but now she sits on me when I crochet too. My family is pretty bad at sympathy when people are upset, so this little kiddo has no idea how much it means to me. How much she, specifically, makes me feel like a part of this little family unit.

So that's my story about why this little comic has such a special place in my heart. Thank you for making me feel like a part of the family, Jasper. I'm so happy to be here!

#things my gf sends me #cat #important #love this #long sappy story #cat love

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I am slowly but surely making my way through all the batman tv shows and movies.

Sheesh there are a lot....

#jason todd #love this #under the red hood #great art

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#important #hmmmmmm

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In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.

Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.

Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.

#love this #important #activism

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I bring a sort of "can't read social cues" vibe to every social situation that I can't tell if anyone likes or not

#it me #things my gf sends me #psa

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My redesign hot take is that if you’re aiming to “desexualize” a female character, don’t make her boobs smaller. You’re implying a lot here.

#large chests aren't inherently sexual #internalized misogyny #important #artist psa #also #let the boobs sag a bit #gravity has that effect on things

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Things my wife (a knight) did for me (a princess) at the Renaissance fair that make me absolutely feral:

Held my umbrella and would not let me carry my own bag

Waited for me outside of shops, booths, and even the bathrooms

Bought and surprised me with a rose, making my knees weak and shaming my friends and their husbands in one fell swoop

Found the one booth that sells coffee and got me a latte WITH A MILK ALTERNATIVE

Won the knife throwing contest against two very cocky men, only preening when I called them handsome

Paid for me to have my face painted like a fairy and told me I was the most beautiful person in the world

Bought me a LITERAL CROWN and then refused to let me take it off

Watched me eat a giant turkey leg like it was the world's greatest nature documentary

Looked at me so sweetly that one of my straight married friends turned red and told us to get a room

Took pictures of all my friends without them even having to ask

Inspired several little girls who clearly had never seen a 'lady knight' and who excitedly pointed us out to their parents

Called me 'my lady' and kissed my hand any time I looked at them

Carried my friend's baby in their arms

Drove us home early because I was too tired to keep walking around

Went into Chickfila (in costume) to ask for the dipping sauce that they forgot to put in our bag while I sat in the car

Fell asleep that night holding my hand

In conclusion: I am gay

#lady knight #i would love to be a lady knight for my femme gf #important #things my gf sends me

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Frog Paints a Water Lily Pond 🪷🎨🐸

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

#outstanding #frog content #important #love this

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a lil something from the commission stack

I was asked to include a beefy angel and swole nuns

#solid work #art #i think medieval monks would be proud

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#miette #love this #IMPORTANT #sound up

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I don’t really understand getting mad at people for mixing up korean, chinese, and japanese

Like, look at them together

見る한국어中国死ね我要吃你マンコ형사我有大鸡巴

and tell me they don’t look similar lol

#linguistics #korean is the only one thats an alphabet soooo #i asked my professor (who was also the japanese lit prof) the official difference #and she shrugged and said iykyk #things my gf sends me

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

#leitmotifs #adore them #psa #things my gf sends me

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parents got a new cat they named lord montague and this morning i heard my dad in the other room say "i would have to advise against that decision, my lord" followed by a crashing sound

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Did you happen to write down what you did while you did it? 👀🐑

i free-handed a little crochet sheep! it’s the first time i’ve tried to crochet something without a pattern, so i’m pretty proud of myself :)

(here’s a photo that’s been edited so you can see its face a bit better)

#good job! #love this #sheep #👀 #quality content

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The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

#psa #love this #important

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#love this #things my gf sends me #very much the guy who's here

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Hi there! I studied Classical Latin in school and specialized in Historical Linguistics (Philology). Classical Latin has gone through several changes over the years. It's history is fascinating, but I think the change most people might be familiar with is the shift from Classical to Ecclesiastical Latin, beginning with the Latin Vulgate in the 1600s. There were several notable changes (including ablative forms and pronunciation of the letter 'v'), and the Vulgate was crafted to be THE definitive source of biblical translation.

If you attend mass today, they're using Latin but it's certainly different than it was during the time of Catullus and company. Latin phrases are also used in courts (like ad hominem aeguments) or even in things like "i.e" (id est-- that is). Since Latin is considered to be a root language for Romance languages, it shows up in root words in Spanish and Italian, for instance. English even has quite a few (even though it's technically a Germanic language). Since a lot of the Classics (the Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid, et al.) originate in Latin, western literature has (to use a technical term) a bit of a stiffy for Classical Latin, keeping it around for a lot of generations.

tl;dr Latin has changed significantly in its modern usage but is in the unique situation that we still reference some of its classical forms.

My final project in my Historical Linguistics class was on the evolution of Classical Latin through Ecclesiastical Latin, so I was very excited to see this on my dash!

Languages evolve and new words will emerge when the need for them arises, but what is the situation with Latin? It's a dead language as in nobody speaks it as their first language anymore but it's still used today, so... is it in the same state as it was back in the day or has it evolved too?

#lingusitics #classical latin